Word: finleyism
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...would be difficult to find two teams more different in mode, mood and deed than the Oakland Athletics and the Cincinnati Reds. Oakland, champion of the weak-sister American League, had come to be thought of as Finley's Freak Show, after Owner Charles O. Finley. They adorned themselves with flowing manes, mustaches and green-and-gold uniforms reminiscent of the Gay Nineties. The players feuded among themselves sporadically and with Manager Dick Williams constantly. They just barely won the pennant in the American League, struggling through five tough games to defeat the Detroit Tigers, who have grown considerably...
First he demanded $115,000. Then $92,500. Then $70,000. Then, Pitcher Vida Blue announced that he was retiring from baseball at the age of 22 to sell bathroom and kitchen fixtures. Nobody believed him, least of all Oakland A's Owner Charles O. Finley, who paid Blue a cut-rate $14,750 last year. Finally, after four months of haggling, Blue signed for $50,000 plus $8,000 for his college education and a $5,000 bonus for winning 24 games last season. "I'll be lucky if I win ten games this season," said Vida...
Graduate school proved to be a strain upon a flagging family budget, so Segal taught, first as a sectionman in Humanities 7 and then in John Finley's Hum 2. "I really found myself, I think, in '59, despite the fact that it was a personal crisis in my own life that made me turn to teaching...
...hear from the players nowadays is gimme, gimme, gimme and threat, threat, threat. I'm getting sick and tired of it," complained Oakland Athletics Owner Charles Finley, who has been devoting much of his energy lately to a contract hassle with Pitcher Vida Blue. Other owners reflected the same hard line. Declared Beer Baron Gussie Busch, owner of the St. Louis...
...this is baseball theater at its most entertaining, but it still is likely that Finley and Blue will reach some sort of agreement. The next question is: Will there be a baseball season for Vida to pitch in? By week's end, 13 major league teams had voted, most of them unanimously, to approve some form of strike before the season begins -if the owners do not kick in at least an additional $10 million for the players' pension and medical-care funds...